The IPCC doesn't write a single report. The have 3 different working groups, each writing their own report. The first group deals with the science, the second deals with the impacts, and the third deals with mitigation. Obviously, the 3rd one is the most politically influenced.
How do they exactly phrase their call for centralized authority ? What's the page number ?
Sodium-sulphur batteries have MW capacity range. Not quite up to unicorn horn levels, but fairly useful, and there's no shortage of building materials.
Most people agree that "consciousness" is a property of internal state.
I don't agree. Consciousness is just as much a property of behavior. Or do would you claim that you have no idea whether your friends and family are conscious ?
We're not talking about thrust that could be provided by a spring loaded system. You'll need a rocket. And depending on much how thrust you have, you may be waiting another half hour before the projectile starts to be slowed down by the atmosphere. This can be shorter, but then you'll need a bigger push. The next phase will be your few pounds of depleted uranium screaming through the atmosphere at double digit Mach numbers, and burning up in a few seconds. If you do it at night, maybe you can make a nice light show for your enemies.
It's all fine to launch such a tiny satellite, but how are they going to get all the information beamed down, and distributed to the whole world for a low cost ?
I agree it will be interesting to look. At least we'll have better access to the internal information than with our human brains. But if the computer has intelligent behavior in every reasonable sense of the word, I don't think you'll be in a position to judge the internals as a "tricky gimmick" any more than you could call a human brain a tricky gimmick.
You don't need two terminals. All you need is the human interrogator, and have him/her talk to either a human or a computer. I agree that they must be aware of the challenge, and also have the ability to ask some decent questions.
And if they can add a miniature projectile launcher into the same 100lb package, they've basically got a global "kill switch" for a limited range of targets. You wouldn't need more than a few pounds of depleted uranium, shaped into a steerable "bolt" and packed with some high explosive, and the necessary thrust could probably be provided by a simple spring mechanism, just like a crossbow.
That's not how orbital mechanics work. If you push the "bolt" away, it will just end up in a different orbit, intersecting the original orbit at the point where it was pushed away. To actually deorbit the bolt, you'd need to push it hard enough that the new orbit intersects the Earth's atmosphere. That's a huge push. But even then you have the problem that it's going to hit the atmosphere, and burn up, or in the best case, just tumble erratically through the atmosphere, hopefully hitting the continent you were aiming for.
Ah, so its goal was not to be a "learning platform", but rather an "an affordable learning platform for kids who want to make programs using GPIO pins, ethernet, and microSD cards, but already have a mouse and a TV with HDMI input".
In that case, I concur that the Pi is perfect. Except that you probably want a regular PC as well, so you can browse the web for tutorials and manuals.
For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past
That's why people have always put metal foil stickers on the EPROM window to protect them. Even exposure to sunlight can mess up uncovered EPROMs. And a little sticker seems easier and more reliable than making sure not a single camera makes it through security.
There's plenty of stuff you can learn without having access to GPIO pins. And why would you care about running from microSD card on a learning platform ?
Even assuming doctors are cold calculating psychopaths, there's plenty of money in treatment of elderly. And even if they wanted to get rid of them, it would be easier to make it look like a natural death by killing them when nobody's watching. Actually putting the assisted suicide as the official cause of death is going to attract attention from the rest of the staff, and family/friends.
My impression is that most people are just getting them for cheap ethernet-enabled controllers, not as learning platforms. It doesn't make that great of a learning platform, anyway. Better to get a cheap PC or laptop for that.
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Surely, there comes a point where solar + batteries are good enough for base load generation ?
The IPCC doesn't write a single report. The have 3 different working groups, each writing their own report. The first group deals with the science, the second deals with the impacts, and the third deals with mitigation. Obviously, the 3rd one is the most politically influenced.
How do they exactly phrase their call for centralized authority ? What's the page number ?
"my boss is an asshole"
You know, I hear this stuff all the time, but I can't think of a single time that I've ever uttered those words to my boss.
Feminism is about women's interests.
And most women simply have no interest in CS jobs, just as they have no interest in hauling garbage or working on an oil rig or fishing boat.
Why on earth would someone actively campaign for people in their interest group to campaign to have worse jobs?
For the same reason men are asking to do those jobs ?
But nobody wants to dismantle old nuclear plants that are still running fine.
Sodium-sulphur batteries have MW capacity range. Not quite up to unicorn horn levels, but fairly useful, and there's no shortage of building materials.
Most people agree that "consciousness" is a property of internal state.
I don't agree. Consciousness is just as much a property of behavior. Or do would you claim that you have no idea whether your friends and family are conscious ?
We're not talking about thrust that could be provided by a spring loaded system. You'll need a rocket. And depending on much how thrust you have, you may be waiting another half hour before the projectile starts to be slowed down by the atmosphere. This can be shorter, but then you'll need a bigger push. The next phase will be your few pounds of depleted uranium screaming through the atmosphere at double digit Mach numbers, and burning up in a few seconds. If you do it at night, maybe you can make a nice light show for your enemies.
It's all fine to launch such a tiny satellite, but how are they going to get all the information beamed down, and distributed to the whole world for a low cost ?
And free public daily images of the Earth already exists: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/dat...
I agree it will be interesting to look. At least we'll have better access to the internal information than with our human brains. But if the computer has intelligent behavior in every reasonable sense of the word, I don't think you'll be in a position to judge the internals as a "tricky gimmick" any more than you could call a human brain a tricky gimmick.
Intelligence is not a black/white issue. It's more like a continuum of different levels.
Why would we need to replace the Turing test, if it's perfectly possible to ask these types of questions as part of the Turing test.
the next logical step is to open up that black box and ask whether it's reasonable to consider what's inside "intelligent" or a tricky gimmick
When a computer truly passes the Turing test, the internal mechanism will be too complex for our judgement.
The extra human is to see whether the computer will end up in a emotional argument with the human about the best way to interpret the instructions.
You don't need two terminals. All you need is the human interrogator, and have him/her talk to either a human or a computer. I agree that they must be aware of the challenge, and also have the ability to ask some decent questions.
It would have to be half the size of the moon, or so.
"That's not a moon! That's a venetian blind!"
And if they can add a miniature projectile launcher into the same 100lb package, they've basically got a global "kill switch" for a limited range of targets. You wouldn't need more than a few pounds of depleted uranium, shaped into a steerable "bolt" and packed with some high explosive, and the necessary thrust could probably be provided by a simple spring mechanism, just like a crossbow.
That's not how orbital mechanics work. If you push the "bolt" away, it will just end up in a different orbit, intersecting the original orbit at the point where it was pushed away. To actually deorbit the bolt, you'd need to push it hard enough that the new orbit intersects the Earth's atmosphere. That's a huge push. But even then you have the problem that it's going to hit the atmosphere, and burn up, or in the best case, just tumble erratically through the atmosphere, hopefully hitting the continent you were aiming for.
Ah, so its goal was not to be a "learning platform", but rather an "an affordable learning platform for kids who want to make programs using GPIO pins, ethernet, and microSD cards, but already have a mouse and a TV with HDMI input".
In that case, I concur that the Pi is perfect. Except that you probably want a regular PC as well, so you can browse the web for tutorials and manuals.
For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past
That's why people have always put metal foil stickers on the EPROM window to protect them. Even exposure to sunlight can mess up uncovered EPROMs. And a little sticker seems easier and more reliable than making sure not a single camera makes it through security.
There's plenty of stuff you can learn without having access to GPIO pins. And why would you care about running from microSD card on a learning platform ?
Sorry again to tell you you don't know what you are talking about. You are living in an ideal world, an utopia and want to believe it.
And you're projecting everything on your N=1 personal experience.
The doctors do not make much money with eldery
Even assuming doctors are cold calculating psychopaths, there's plenty of money in treatment of elderly. And even if they wanted to get rid of them, it would be easier to make it look like a natural death by killing them when nobody's watching. Actually putting the assisted suicide as the official cause of death is going to attract attention from the rest of the staff, and family/friends.
Not necessarily. Somebody with a incurable disease and a lot of pain would be considered quite sane to wish to end the hopeless suffering.
My impression is that most people are just getting them for cheap ethernet-enabled controllers, not as learning platforms. It doesn't make that great of a learning platform, anyway. Better to get a cheap PC or laptop for that.
Because doctors have a secret urge to kill their patients ?